Two Pakistani brothers, who spent two years in jail for cannibalism in 2011, have been sentenced to 12 years rigorous imprisonment by an anti- terrorism court in a fresh human flesh eating case. The Anti-Terrorism Court in Sargodha district of Punjab province in Pakistan has announced the verdict two months after they were arrested in April, reported the Dawn.
Muhammad Arif, 35 and Farman Ali, 30, will undergo rigorous imprisonment in the Mianwali district jail.
They were re-arrested in April for allegedly eating the flesh of a dead child at their house.
The two brothers were earlier sentenced for eating five corpses dug out from a graveyard of the Darya Khan locality in Bhakkar district have again been found involved in cannibalism.
Both of them are married and have children but their wives abandoned them reportedly when they came to know that their husbands were cannibals.
Police arrested one of the brothers, Mohammad Arif in April and found
child's body parts at their residence. The other brother, Mohammad Farman, managed to flee but was later captured by police.
The two brothers had dug up more than 100 corpses from the local graveyard and ate them in the past, police said.
Farman and Arif were first arrested for cannibalism in 2011 and the town had attracted both national and international media coverage when on April 3 that year, the newly-buried body of a girl was found in their house with a few limbs cooked in a curry.
Since there is no law in Pakistan related to cannibalism, the police arrested the duo under the Anti-Terrorism Act declaring that their action created fear and insecurity among people.
